Jewish Agency Starts Ten-day Session Today on Important Problems

May 20, 1959

JERUSALEM (May. 19)

Under the chairmanship of Dr. Nahum Goldmann, and with the participation of American members, the Jewish Agency executive will open a ten day series of meetings here tomorrow, one of the longest sessions on record.

There are 31 items on the agenda. They include the Agency’s budget; prospects of immigration into Israel generally, and from the United States in particular; the situation in the coordinating committee between the Agency and the Israel Government; initiation of basic discussions on redistribution of tasks as between the Agency and the Israel Government in the field of immigrant absorption; and the appointment of a Presidents’ Club advisory committee for the Jewish Agency.